Hadith 110

of Allah-azwj, with fearing Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic and taking advantage as much as you came in working with it, from the obedience of Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic during these vacant (free time) days with the whatever miseries are upon you all due to it. The loss is after the death, and with the rejection of this world that is leaving you, and even if you do not happen to like leaving it, and it is wearing you out and even if you like with renewing it. Rather, your example and its example is like riders travelling a way. It is as if they have cut across it and taught knowledge. It is as if they have reached it, and how much flow is there to the peak left to flow before he reaches it? How many a day remains for him, not to return, and from behind him is a passionate seeker (death) threatening him in the world until he separates from it? Do not be competing regarding honours of the world and its pride, and do not be fascinated with its adornments, and do not be alarmed from its adversities and its miseries, for honours of the world and its pride are to be terminated, and its adornments and its bounties are to decline, and its harms and its miseries are to deplete, and every period in it is to an end, and every life in it is to perish. Or isn’t there for you any deterrence in the traces of the former ones, and an insight and a lesson in your forefathers gone past, if you only knew? Are you no looking at the past ones from you not returning, and to the ones from you remaining behind that they will not be remaining? Allah-azwj Mighty and Exalted Said: And it is Prohibited upon a town which We Destroyed, that they will not be returning [21: 95] – the Verse, and that which is after it. And Mighty and Majestic Said: Every self shall taste the death, and rather you will be paid fully your Recompense on the Day of Judgement; so the one who is removed far away from the Fire and enters the Paradise he indeed has succeeded; and what is the life of the world except for a deceptive pleasure? [3: 185]. Aren’t you seeing people of the world coming to the evening and morning upon various states – a decayed dead, and another consoled, and a collapsed afflicted one, and a repeatedly turning back, and another finding his (last) breath, and a seeker while the death seeks him, and a heedless while he is not heedless from, and the remainder from us are continuing upon tracks of the past ones. For Allah-azwj is the Praise, Lord-azwj of the seven skies and Lord-azwj of the Mighty Throne Who remains while whatever is beside Him-azwj perishes, and to Him-azwj shelter the creatures and the affairs return’. And he-asws said: ‘As for after, I-asws caution you all of the world, for it is sweet, green, surround with the lustful desires, and layered with the little, and liked for the current, and lived with the hopes, and adorned with the deceptions, so neither are its bounties permanent nor do its sufferings end. (It is) treacherous, harmful, tricky, declining, depleting, remote, consuming, onerous. It does not return when it isolates to the wishes of the people being desirous in it and the ones satisfied with it, just as Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic has Said: like water We Send it from the sky, so it mingl